shoot up

verb

shot up; shooting up; shoots up

transitive verb

1

: to shoot or shoot at especially recklessly

cowboys shooting up the town

2

: to inject (a narcotic drug) into a vein

intransitive verb

: to inject a narcotic into a vein

shoot-up

ˈshüt-ˌəp 

noun

Examples of shoot up in a Sentence

gas prices shot up seemingly overnight

Recent Examples on the Web

The cost for a five-year residence permit shot up to $475 from $38. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026

Large-format 4K monitors don’t come cheap, nor do RAM and SSDs, which have shot up in cost due to supply shortages. — Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026

When the pollsters gave likely voters additional, critical information about both candidates, Bass shot up by 5 points and took a narrow lead over Raman, 40% to 39%, with 21% undecided, according to FM3. — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Lake Charles, Louisiana, resident Dan Charlson said his insurance shot up over time from roughly $900 to $4,000. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1890, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Rhymes for shoot up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup